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Audacity 1.4 User Manual

• Audacity for the Impatient (all you need to know in one page)
• Editing for Beginners - Cut, Copy and Paste
• Editing for Beginners - Introduction
• Editing for Beginners - Silence, Duplicate and Split
• Editing for Beginners - Splitting and Submixes
• Sample rates (may be a candidate for a technical appendix or similar later)
• Theme Preferences
• Transcription Toolbar disabled
• What's New in Audacity 1.3.2
• Batch Preferences - this Preferences tab no longer exists.

• Tutorial - Editing an Existing File
• Tutorial - Your First Recording
• Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music
• Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD

• Digital Audio
• Audacity Tracks and Clips
• Audacity Selection
• Audacity Setup and Configuration
• What is an Audacity Project?
• Playing and Recording
• Zooming
• Undo, Redo and History

• Working with Audio CDs Audacity cannot import or burn to CDs itself, but read how to work with them here
• Recording Quality *Recovery (if Audacity crashes or if you lose part of an Audacity project)
• Batch Processing (converting multiple files at once)
• Customization (keyboard shortcuts, adding plug-ins and more)
• Simplifying Audacity
• Accessibility (Audacity for the visually impaired)

• Spectrogram Analysis (or one or more better titles, cover tracking down clicks, square wave as-a-spectrum, beat frequencies).

• Menu Bar overview
• File

• Metadata Editor for editing information tags in exported files
• File Export Dialog including help on which format to export to
• Export options for:

WAV, AIFF and uncompressed types, MP3*, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP2 and Command line export   *MP3 export requires the LAME MP3 encoder

• Advanced Mixing Options dialog for exporting multi-channel files

• Edit

• Editing Help: Cut, Paste and More

• View
• Tracks
• Generate

• Effect

• Detailed help for some of the more complex built-in effects:

Auto Duck, Compressor, Equalization, Noise Removal

• Help with VST effect plug-ins

• Analyze
• Help

• Toolbars overview

• Tools

• Extra help with Envelope Tool for controlling amplitude changes smoothly, and Multi-Tool (combining all tools in one)

• Control
• Edit
• Mixer
• Meter
• Transcription
• Selection

• Timeline
• Tracks overview
• Audio Tracks

• Track Drop-Down Menu
• Mixing Audio Tracks

• Label Tracks
• Time Tracks

• Preferences overview
• Audio I/O
• Quality
• Import / Export
• Interface
• Spectrograms
• Directories
• Keyboard

• List of all keyboard shortcuts

• Mouse

• Glossary of Terms with links to Wikipedia and/or main Wiki including audio file formats.
• Frequently Asked Questions

• Credits
• License
• Information for Developers - how to join our developer community
• Audacity Project Format